''Brefeldia'' is an
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
slime mold
Slime mold or slime mould is an informal name given to several kinds of unrelated eukaryotic organisms with a life cycle that includes a free-living single-celled stage and the formation of spores. Spores are often produced in macroscopic mu ...
s in the family
Amaurochaetaceae
Amaurochaetaceae is an family of slime molds in the order Stemonitidales.
Genera
*'' Amaurochaete''
*'' Brefeldia''
*''Comatricha
''Comatricha'' is a genus of slime molds in the family Amaurochaetaceae. As of 2015, Index Fungorum
''Index ...
.
The genus name of ''Brefeldia'' is in honour of
Julius Oscar Brefeld
Julius Oscar Brefeld (19 August 1839 – 12 January 1925), usually just Oscar Brefeld, was a German botanist and mycologist.
Biography
Brefeld was a native of Telgte. He studied pharmacy in Heidelberg and Berlin, and afterwards served as an a ...
(1839 – 1925), a German botanist and mycologist.
The genus was
circumscribed
In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter and its radius is called the circumradius.
Not every polyg ...
by Józef Tomasz Rostafínsky in 1873 and appears to be
monotypic
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...
, containing the species ''
Brefeldia maxima
''Brefeldia maxima'' is a species of non-parasitic plasmodial slime mold, and a member of the class Myxogastria, Myxomycetes. It is common name, commonly known as the tapioca slime mold because of its peculiar pure white, tapioca pudding-like app ...
''
[Rostafínsky JT (1873) ''Versuch Syst. Mycetozoen (Strassburg)'': 8, p. 20.]
References
External links
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Myxogastria
Amoebozoa genera